Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something else about the tenuous meetings of East and West. He got it all down in A Passage to India (1924), an unquestioned masterpiece. The novel's satiric anti-colonialism riled many; British civil servants sailing out to India threw the book overboard. Some of Forster's acid observations on the Raj were effectively challenged, but the art of the novel was beyond refutation. It sang with the poetry of its Indian settings, the hope that British and Indians could only connect. Its echoing conclusion came from the earth and the sky: the time for union...
Danehy, the strongest proponent in City Hall of the moratorium, has said he will "keep swinging." His success in rallying council support may well be the acid test of his ability to control the council...
...have access to numerous James Bondian devices that can make murder look like natural death ?poison delivered by aerosol spray, tiny darts fired from pens or cigarette boxes. In the late '50s a KGB agent killed two Ukrainian exile leaders in Germany by squirting prussic acid into their faces from a fountain pen; the symptoms made it appear that the men had died of simple heart attacks...
Macy Koehlor, University biohazards officer, last week issued a directive asking recombinant DNA researchers to use a more thorough experimental procedure which involves cleaning the glassware in acid to rid it of any DNA remnants...
...people who believe they are the fulfillment of a Hopi prophecy that said five generations after the white men destined to live in harmony with the great Spirit of the Earth. Karma, reincarnation, natural foods, meditation, tai chi, buddhism, astrology, yin and yang, ecology, TM, astral projection, cosmic consciousness, acid--anything spiritual or far out and freaky was right on with these people. I got to the gathering--7000 hippies in a cold, wet, muddy meadow in Boondocks, Oregon with dogs, goats and drunken people and a huge, disgusting pot of beans--this was not my ideal of a good...